Many men, including me, hate to go to the doctor for testosterone testing.

But that’s what you have to do to get really accurate testosterone test result (even though I have gotten results so wacky that even the doctors and medical experts seem to fail).

But what if you could figure out how to testosterone testing at home? And what if we could define a close number without going to the doctor?

That’s what this post is about: easy testosterone tests you can do at home.

Obviously testosterone levels fluctuate a lot and by doing this at home means that everything is only a speculation, but I believe that in most cases you can get fairly close to your actual numbers and use natural ways to test testosterone by monitoring few things I’m about to explain here.

So how can you do testosterone testing at home? Want to learn how to test testosterone without a doctor or laboratory?

Let’s find out!

Monitor The Smell of Your Sweat

Sounds stupid huh?

Well let me explain why this should show some guidance to you:

You have had these glands called apocrine glands for your whole life, but they really started working during puberty.

Those glands produce the sweat called “apocrine sweat” and it’s hormonally driven.

That’s the reason why if small kids sweat it doesn’t smell bad, but once a teenager or a grown man does, it can smell awful.

In a nutshell: The more apocrine sweat you produce, the more testosterone you’re likely to have.

So the more bitter, pungent, and manly your sweat smells like, the more testosterone you will likely produce.

In contrary to that: a good low testosterone test is seeing if your sweat has no smell, or it’s not pungent. If this is the case, then you most likely have very low testosterone levels, and that’s why you sweat like a baby.

Monitor The Size of Your Testicles

If they’re small and atrophied (not just temporarily but all the time), you likely have low testosterone.

If they’re big and full, you most certainly have high testosterone & sperm production.

You can test this out by going to a women’s fragrance section, then be there for a while and inhale all those estrogenic perfumes. I can guarantee you that your balls will be like raisins after that.

Or get yourself drunk, the following morning you will have smaller balls than usual. That’s because the alcohol has decreased your testosterone levels.

Monitor The Quality and Frequency of Your Erections

Your erections are testosterone driven. If you don’t have them frequently, you probably lack the testosterone which drives them to happen.

Based on the huge amount of “help me” emails that I’ve been getting since I opened this website. I’d say that all of the guys complaining about erectile problems are somewhere around and below of 300 ng/dl. For younger guys the number is a bit higher (some have reported ED problems at 400-500 ng/dl so it seems like young guys are more sensitive to the effects).

The higher your testosterone levels are the easier it is to get erections. Once you go past 800 ng/dl you can likely summon a boner without even thinking about sex.

Morning erections are also a giveaway. If there’s none, or they’re infrequent then there’s 4 possibilities:

If you exercise by lifting heavy weights and your aerobic exercise is something like sprint running or high interval intensity training. Then you most likely have constantly elevated testosterone levels.

In contrary if you’re jogging or practicing long term endurance sports like marathon running etc. You’re most likely having constantly decreased testosterone levels.

Again this is not a way to get a solid number out. Still this is a way to test, measure, and define some sort of reasonable range.

Check Your Diet

In contrary, if you’re a vegetarian/vegan, eating a low fat diet, on a calorific deficit, avoiding meats, and not eating organic produce. You’re most likely rocking low testosterone levels.

Again this is just to give you some examples on how to figure out your possible numbers.

Conclusion

Based on the above factors, you should now know how to test testosterone levels and be able to figure out a reasonable range, or at least to figure out if you’re on the low side.

Nothing beats the actual number that you get from your doctor after a blood test, but if you’re like me and hate going there (and paying your ass off), you can use the above factors to determine a reasonable number.

NOTE:Even tough you would have high testosterone levels, you can still have the low T symptoms, these can be caused by high estrogen or low free testosterone (or multiple other things). That’s why it’s not a bad idea to go get a blood test, at least once to be on the map.

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Wow, finally! I have been wondering about this for awhile now! We have seen those commercials and news reports about men losing T as they age. But, which come first; age or low T? The Rural Study, even though the conclusion was way off (winter fasting? Really? That’s what they came away with?), shows that age is not the determining factor in low T.

I think the researcher’s conclusion completely missed the mark! Occam’s Razor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor) would suggest that the answer would be *activity*! What happens to farmers in the winter? They decrease their workload. What’s the first way of the “100 Ways to Increase Testosterone Levels”? Weight Training! This makes complete sense as to why men 30+ T starts to wane! And, why the Bolivian farmer’s didn’t. But, the researchers missed it.

Specifically in the US, we have a tendency to get extremely sedentary after college (marriage, kids, and work life all start to take it’s toll). We get fat and lazy (myself included, and am still fighting to get back to where I was). I would bet if this study was done with US farmers and/or construction workers (you don’t usually see fat farmers or construction workers, do you?), the results would be very similar, even though they don’t do winter fasting, but there workload does decrease drastically! But…. I would also bet that if those same construction workers were to do weight training in the winter (because they have more time), you probably wouldn’t see any drop off!
Thanks for the article. This and your others postings are a gold mine of information on men’s health that we aren’t getting anywhere else!

I believe that being sedentary is the sole reason for that testosterone decline, and I’d go as far as saying that it’s probably a cause for multiple other conditions.

A man was never meant to sit for hours and hours. The modern day life is so out of balance with what the human body really needs, that it leads to conditions such as low T.

N2Paul

This site is awesome , this and the one peaktestosterone.com are the best in this field. Also I want to stress out that other things that can destroy a guys life is porn and masturbation . If you avoid that and take all steps to increase your testosterone you’ll be a beast.
Also a very important thing is a desease called Varicocele , 15% of guys have it . I also have it for years and my testosterone was at 400 at the age of 22 years despite having a lifestyle very healthy and eating very good and organic.

Thanks for the kind words mate. I remember when I found out peaktestosterone.com years ago. The site was pure gold, and still is to a guy who doesn’t know much about T.

The only thing that I can’t agree with peak T is that he promotes using TRT and uses it himself, and that he bashes dietary fats too much (which I believe is the preliminary reason why he is on TRT)

Other than that I think the site is awesome. And it has helped me a lot when I was figuring this stuff out myself.

I actually covered internet porn and masturbation in one of my articles few days ago. And I agree with you. Porn alters the brain and deep down decreases testosterone’s ability to bind onto androgen receptors etc.

I don’t think that serotonin would hurt T. It’s a happiness hormone as far as I know 😀

nick

I smell like a pig thanks to you 😀

John

Eating a vegan diet will not lower testosterone. Too much soy might be a problem but if you are healthy you would avoid soy anyway. I am a vegan triathlete and I can crush most people.

Tomas Samot

Hmm i have doubt that huge balls = high testosterone. Lets think – high testosterone means high estrogens (they are proportionally related) . High estrogens means – body need to lower T. So by lowering the LH, lower LH = less testicle work, less testicle work = smaller size (less cells who produce test). So it looks like when you produce enough test — your balls most likely will be smaller. Also old people have bigger balls but they produce less test.